Yes. That’s what he does. But unlike, say, 6 (?) years ago, he leavens his narrow focus with acknowledgement of the central issue. That’s good form. Examples:
I admit that best practice might have included an acknowledgment in the first of 2nd post by Bricker. Though frankly I’ll concede that it wouldn’t have made a difference in terms of the responses, based on past experience.
A dissenting view:
I disagree with the Great Antibob. The pit is a safety valve for the remainder of the board. It permits insults and observations of a personal nature. But it has never mandated insults, or expressions of outrage for that matter. It is wholly appropriate to fight ignorance in a venue whose minimum bar is lower than the remainder of the board. Just because vulgarity is permitted here, doesn’t imply that there is any sort of ceiling on the level of discourse.
I suppose we could have a venue where people could spout bullshit without challenge. Oh, actually we do: it’s called the remainder of the internet.
This has more to do with your personal views of Bricker instead of what he has said which in this thread has a) addressed directly a major point of the OP and b) been 100% correct. The fact that you do want him to be right is your problem not mine. And I’m not playing his game, I brought it up first. It was a glaringly stupid statement in the OP. I didn’t know we were supposed to perpetuate factual inaccuracies now.
Out of curiosity, was he saying that sort of stuff before he won reelection? I’m wondering if the people of Maine elected a racist by accident, or knowing fully what he was.
The solution is obvious: when Trump is elected he can offer Lepage a high administration position. How about head of the Drug Enforcement Administration?
It’s my understanding (an understanding I acquired by reading about him here on the Dope) that both of his electoral victories were won through pluralities, the majority let’s-not-elect-LePage vote having been split between two more liberal candidates.
IOW, if the various progressive factions could have gotten their shit in one sock and kept their eyes on the No-Republican-Governor prize, they would likely have been able to prevent even his first term.
The second time they screwed that up strikes me as inexcusable.
Both times, LePage won by a plurality, not a majority, fyi. He won because he was the only right-winger on the ticket, whereas there were two left wingers that split the votes. A majority of us voted for someone else, it’s just that we couldn’t agree on who that someone else should be, so he won by default.
